Our Existential Climate Fears

On Jan. 6, the meteorologist, self-described climate hawk and host of the Our Warm Regards podcast, Eric Holthaus, wrote from a pit of despondence. “I’m starting my 11th year working on climate change, including the last 4 in daily journalism,” he tweeted. “Today I went to see a counselor about it. I’m saying this b/c I know many ppl feel deep despair about climate, especially postelection. I struggle every day. You are not alone. How am I supposed to do my job — literally to chronicle planetary suicide — w/o experiencing deep existential despair myself?”

These are perilous times for both the climate and those like Mr. Holthuas working on its behalf. The new Trump administration instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove its web page about climate change from the site. Scientists, archivists and journalists have been scrambling to preserve the valuable data the agency amassed, and the National Park Service is verging on revolt. What are people to do when they’ve dedicated careers to helping save a planet whose sickness the current government refuses to acknowledge as being real?

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Wesley Morris is the critic at large for The New York Times and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Jenna Wortham is a staff writer for the magazine.